All hail the King! Felix throws perfect game

Summary of 10 articles · Updated Aug 16, 2012

Jaffe: King Felix's latest gem is just perfect Neither The Dutch Master, Tom Terrific nor The Ryan Express ever pitched a perfect game like Koufax, but the fifth member of this club King Felix now has. On Wednesday afternoon, Seattle Mariners pitcher Feli… (more)x Hernandez threw his first perfect game, and the first perfect game in franchise history. You can count the number of mistakes Felix made in the game on one hand. There are so many angles we can take to describe and explain Felix Hernandez's mastery of the Tampa Bay Rays during Wednesday's start, one that produced the 23rd perfect game in Major League Baseball history. It was the perfect response to the first perfect game in Mariners history, a giddy moment for a franchise that had endured the wrong side of perfection earlier this season at the hands of the White Sox Philip Humber. The 2010 American League Cy Young winner struck out 12 as he continued an overpowering midseason run with his fourth shutout in the past 10 games, including a five-hitter against the Red Sox, a three-hitter against the Rangers, a two-hitter against the Yankees and, now, perfection against the Rays.

King Felix throws perfect game against Rays

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Felix Hernandez has been called the "king" for almost as long as he's been in the public eye, but it wasn't until Wednesday afternoon that the big Seattle Mariners righthander received his true crowning moment. And talk about a grand and exten…